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Armada
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 869

Armada

The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised “Will surely become the definitive account.”—Stephen Brumwell, Wall Street Journal In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks later an English fireship attack in the Channel—and then a fierce naval battle—foiled the planned invasion. Many myths still surround these events. The genius of Sir Francis Drake is exalted, while Spain’s efforts are belittled. But what really happened during that fateful encounter? Drawing on archives from around the world, Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker also deploy vital new evidence from Armada shipwrecks off the coasts of Ireland and Scotland. Their gripping, beautifully illustrated account provides a fresh understanding of how the rival fleets came into being; how they looked, sounded, and smelled; and what happened when they finally clashed. Looking beyond the events of 1588 to the complex politics which made war between England and Spain inevitable, and at the political and dynastic aftermath, Armada deconstructs the many legends to reveal why, ultimately, the bold Spanish mission failed.

Women in Convent Spaces and the Music Networks of Early Modern Barcelona
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 270

Women in Convent Spaces and the Music Networks of Early Modern Barcelona

This book presents the first study of music in convent life in a single Hispanic city, Barcelona, during the early modern era. Exploring how convents were involved in the musical networks operating in sixteenth-century Barcelona, it challenges the invisibility of women in music history and reveals the intrinsic role played by nuns and lay women in the city’s urban musical culture. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, this innovative study offers a cross-disciplinary approach that not only reveals details of the rich musical life in Barcelona’s nunneries, but shows how they took part in wider national and transnational networks of musical distribution, including religious, commerc...

A Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1202

A Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1878
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Revista Hidalguía número 267. Año 1998
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 148

Revista Hidalguía número 267. Año 1998

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Jesuit Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Jesuit Art

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-01-31
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In Jesuit Art, Mia Mochizuki considers the artistic production of the pre-suppression Society of Jesus (1540–1773) from a global perspective. Geographic and medial expansion of the standard corpus changes not only the objects under analysis, it also affects the kinds of queries that arise. Mochizuki draws upon masterpieces and material culture from around the world to assess the signature structural innovations pioneered by Jesuits in the history of the image. When the question of a ‘Jesuit style’ is rehabilitated as an inquiry into sources for a spectrum of works, the Society’s investment in the functional potential of illustrated books reveals the traits that would come to define the modern image as internally networked, technologically defined, and innately subjective.

Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 697

Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe

In 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys to Europe. Until the arrival of the embassy in Europe, the Euro-Japanese encounter had been almost exclusively one way: Europeans going to Japan. This book is an account of their travels, their long journeys out and back, and the 20 months in Europe being received by popes and kings. It was published in Macao in 1590 with the title De Missione Legatorvm Iaponensium ad Romanum curiam. The present edition is the first complete version of this rich, complex and impressive work to appear in English, and is accompanied with maps and illustrations of the mission, and an introduction discussing its context and the subsequent reception of the book.

The Franciscans in California
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 552

The Franciscans in California

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1897
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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A history of Spanish literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 454

A history of Spanish literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1898
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Official Railway Guide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2112

The Official Railway Guide

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1887
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Authority in European Book Culture 1400-1600
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

Authority in European Book Culture 1400-1600

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-08
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Through its many and varied manifestations, authority has frequently played a role in the communication process in both manuscript and print. This volume explores how authority, whether religious, intellectual, political or social, has enforced the circulation of certain texts and text versions, or acted to prevent the distribution of books, pamphlets and other print matter. It also analyzes how readers, writers and printers have sometimes rebelled against the constraints and restrictions of authority, publishing controversial works anonymously or counterfeiting authoritative texts; and how the written or printed word itself has sometimes been perceived to have a kind of authority, which mig...